http://howeenterprise.com/ Volume #55, Edition #27
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Monday, November 20, 2017
Howe Chamber honors HHS Marching Band with parade theme
We heard that President Trump just called for the execution of five turkeys that President Obama had previously pardoned. Politicians are having a really bad month because people are finding out that they are corrupt and living as if they are above the law with sexual allegations and such. In other news, trees usually lose their leaves this The Howe Area Chamber floats in the parade so far of Commerce with help are the Grayson County time of year. from Keep Howe Beautiful Sheriff's Office, Fierce Motions in Dance, Pride of Watching the Cowboys last has announced that this year's Christmas parade Howe Marching Band, night - I had flashbacks of theme will be "Stained Community Bible Quincy Carter. If only Bill Glass" to honor the 'Pride of Fellowship, King's Trail Parcells could come back Howe' HHS Marching Band Cowboy Church, Howe and fix this awful mess. who recently finished ninth Enterprise, Chill Out, Texoma Trash, and the Boyd Dunn is back at it over in state at the UIL State Marching Competition. Howe Pack 45 Cub Scouts. at the old First Christian Church now known as Summit Garden. He and his The parade is scheduled for Keep Howe Beautiful will Dec. 9 with a start time of have a Christmas Tree helper Mike have been working on the ADA ramp 4:30 pm. Those with floats Lighting at Memorial Park on Dec. 8 at 4 pm and are on the inside and the steps will line up at Charles R. Thompson Gymnasium asking the community to to the stage area. Rick parking lot at 3:45 pm prior decorate the tree with Owens and his crew have to the parade. There is no environmentally friendly been a huge help with entry fee for a float in the ornaments. The Howe Fire getting the electric finished parade. Dept. are helping with and some interior work. We lights. are hoping for a spring Those that have entered opening, but are running quickly short of cash again and may require one more fundraising push. The idea now is to have the building safe to the public and hold a dinner to rally the total in order to finish the project.
Griffin signs with Murray State to play softball
Georgia Caraway has finished her backyard pavilion downtown and we thought it was so impressive that we decided to have a family photo back there over the weekend. With a teenager and a soon-to-beteenager, I report that they were extremely thrilled to have approximately 250 photos taken of them. We are off this week, so if you know of anything going on, let us know. 2017 HoweEnterprise.com Readership
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With family by her side, Payton Griffin signs her paperwork to play softball at Murray State College. Payton Griffin became the third Howe Lady Bulldog softball player in less than a week to officially sign to continue her softball career in college. In last week's edition we featured Peyton Streetman and Erin Blackburn who signed with North Central Texas College and the University
of Central Arkansas, respectively. This week it was Griffin's turn as she had friends, family, and present and future coaches in tow. Griffin committed to Murray State in Tishomingo, Oklahoma at Continued on page 3
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Thanksgiving is for life Every year about this time someone gets up and tells us how thankful we should be for yellow flowers and pretty leaves. Or for something like overstuffed turkeys and overstuffed living room furniture and overstuffed stomachs. And of course we should be thankful for these things, but who should we thank but ourselves, after all we did make them, didn’t we? Or we worked hard and earned it, didn’t we? I mean we deserve the fruits of our labors, don’t we? You can smugly believe that if you wish, but if you do, then you had better turn off your televisions news. Don’t read a newspaper, never open a history book, never leave town, and don’t watch for airplanes overhead. If you do any of these things you will be reminded what a great gift you have been given by all others in this world. You are enabled to work in relative peace; you are able to eat healthy foods; you are free to come and go, to read and explore, to have and to give things away because others have died. Yes DIED. Every day somewhere in this world someone or something dies so that you can live. Tomorrow, even today, you may have to die in order for others to live. And today you will take life away from some animals or things so that you can live. When you eat that big bird, remember, once it was alive, but it died so that you can live. Or think of the vegetables, once alive, that must not live so that you can live. And why should you live? Are you so good that you deserve it? Oh No! It was given to you to live this day. As a minister I could cite a hundred passages from the Bible to establish this, but I will not. You know it from your own life. Remember your mother? She gave up the primeness of her strength in her youth and became an old woman, maybe even died in the process, so that you may live. If you are a Christian, remember our Lord. How he poured out his very life, for you to live. We might cite our country and its history. We might cite our hopes for the future of our world. We can look any direction and see that this is the way of life. Why we go on living is a mystery, not something we earn or deserve. And if we live we know it is a gift. A gift from the Giver and the Sustainer and Maker of all of life, the very stream of life itself. The Giver, Maker, Sustainer, and Redeemer of life is what we Christians call God. And what every man knows as utterly different from himself if he knows anything of the depth, mystery and utter wonder that is life. In view of this kind of world and this kind of life, there is only one way we can stand in life, one way to be: thankful. Thanksgiving is the stance of any man who is really a man, and most especially of any man who calls himself a Christian. So important is it to life, that even politicians realize this, and so the President has called us to a National Day of Thankfulness, as he does every year. Let us really make that this time. Let us not eat and go to sleep. Let us be thankful, and stay awake……to live! - Norman H. Bouffard, Pastor, First Methodist Church - Published on the front page of the Howe Enterprise, Thursday, Nov. 23, 1967
